"Most jaw-dropping was Oreskes’s claim that climate change is happening
“faster than scientists predicted.” This is flat-out untrue. A 2013 commentary
co-authored by Francis Zwiers, an elected member of the IPCC Bureau and
former IPCC lead coordinating author, found that recent observed global
warming was significantly less than the surface trend simulated by
climate models. In the 15 years to 2012, the observed trend of 0.05
degrees Centigrade per decade — not significantly different from zero,
according to the authors — was more than four times smaller than the
averaged simulated trend of 20 climate models used by the IPCC." - Rupert Darwall (UK), author of The Age of Global Warming: A History (Quartet, 2013), explains why 2014 temperatures figures have been over-stated.